Find missing birth days in Apple Addressbook
- by Felix Ogg
I am trying to clean the holes out of my Mac address book. As a first step I want to ask all my friends for their birth day, to be able to congratulate them with cheesy Hallmark cards.
I need a "group" in my address book, to mailmerge personalized messages from.
This is the Applescript I came up with:
tell application "Address Book"
make new group with properties {name:"No Birthday"}
set birthdayPeople to (get every person whose birth date is greater than date "Monday, January 1, 1900 12:00:00 AM")
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in people
set thePerson to item i of people
if not (birthdayPeople contains thePerson) then
add thePerson to group "No Birthday"
end if
end repeat
save
end tell
It breaks, but from the error messages I cannot deduce what is wrong:
Result: error "Can’t make «class azf4»
id
\"05F770BA-7492-436B-9B58-E24F494702F8:ABPerson\"
of application \"Address Book\" into
type vector." number -1700 from «class
azf4» id
"05F770BA-7492-436B-9B58-E24F494702F8:ABPerson" to vector
(BTW: Did I mention this is my first AppleScript code, EVER? So, if this code can be simplified, or made more elegant, that is welcome too.)
